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Notes
Book I
Whatever gains human praise is to be done;
Public praying and almsgiving gave human praise:
[ergo] Public praying and almsgiving are to be done.
Utere tuo judicio nihil enim impedio.
[Greek:
to peras to apeiron | to euthu
to perisson to artion | to phos
to en to plethos | to tetragonon
to dexion to aristeron | to aeremoun
to arren to thelu | to agathon
]
Book II
Book III
“Treason doth never prosper, what’s the reason?
When it doth prosper, none dare call it Treason.”
Book V
Builder : Shoemaker : : 1 pr. shoes : 1 house—wrong.
—— —— 100 pr. shoes : 1 house—right —— —— 10 (100 pr. shoes) : 1 house—wrong.
Book VI
All that is pleasant is to be done,
This is pleasant,
This is to be done
{ [Greek: to men hygieias poiætikon], [Greek: hygieinon legetai]
{ [Greek: to de phylaktikon],
{ [Greek: to de sæmantikon].
“This particular action is———.”
Book VII
Horace has a good comment upon this (II Sat 2):
Quæ virtus et quanta, bom, sit vivere parvo
Discite, non inter lances mensasque nitentes
Verum hic impransi mecum disquirite
Actions of Lust are wrong actions done with pleasure,
Wrong actions done with pleasure are more justly objects of wrath,
Such as are more justly objects of wrath are more unjust,
Actions of Lust are more unjust
[Greek: hubpis] is introduced as the single instance from which this premiss is proved inductively. See the account of it in the Chapter of the Rhetoric referred to in the preceding note.
Book VIII
“two stone bottles found,
To hold the liquor that she loved,
And keep it safe and sound.”
Book IX
Book X
From not being to being . . . . Generation
From being to not being . . . . Destruction
From being to being more . . . . Increase
From being to being less . . . . Diminution
From being here to being there . . Change of Place
From being in this way to being in that Alteration